Climate and average weather in Chongoyape

In Chongoyape, the weather is humid, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around March.

Best: mid May to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Chongoyape typically varies from 16°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 31°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Chongoyape for warm-weather activities is from mid May to early December.

Hottest
Feb
29°
Coldest
Aug
16°
Wettest
Mar
167 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
460 mm
85 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
214 m
6.6°S
Clearest
Aug
41% cloud

Chongoyape is city in Lambayeque, Peru.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Chongoyape weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid May to early December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Chongoyape, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Chongoyape stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 29°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 16°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2920
Feb2921
Mar2921
Apr2820
May2719
Jun2517
Jul2417
Aug2416
Sep2416
Oct2516
Nov2617
Dec2819

Average hourly temperature in Chongoyape

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 16°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Chongoyape weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan29° / 20°5011.212.35.0
Feb29° / 21°11618.212.23.9
Mar29° / 21°16722.6123.6
Apr28° / 20°6814.911.95.1
May27° / 19°144.411.77.3
Jun25° / 17°20.811.68.4
Jul24° / 17°00.111.78.9
Aug24° / 16°00.111.88.9
Sep24° / 16°30.9128.4
Oct25° / 16°82.812.17.7
Nov26° / 17°113.412.37.3
Dec28° / 19°195.412.46.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Chongoyape gets about 460 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Dec 27 to May 5, peaking in March at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 11.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 167 mm over about 23 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 16 · 74%Jul 11 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3811
Feb6318
Mar7223
Apr4915
May154
Jun31
Jul00
Aug10
Sep31
Oct93
Nov113
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Chongoyape collects about 460 mm of rain across 85 wet days — roughly 38 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 167 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec501161676814200381119
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan5011
Feb11618
Mar16723
Apr6815
May144
Jun21
Jul00
Aug00
Sep31
Oct83
Nov113
Dec195

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Chongoyape, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 27 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 14. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 15 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 26. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 7 · 82%Mar 16 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb1090
Mar892
Apr2971
May5545
Jun7129
Jul8020
Aug7921
Sep5941
Oct4357
Nov3664
Dec3268

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around May 30, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.36:166:37
Feb12.26:266:39
Mar12.06:266:29
Apr11.96:226:13
May11.76:236:05
Jun11.66:296:06
Jul11.76:346:13
Aug11.86:286:15
Sep12.06:136:11
Oct12.15:586:07
Nov12.35:546:12
Dec12.46:026:25

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Chongoyape averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 18 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around May 3 to Oct 8. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 618 daysMar 160 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul17Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep9Mixed
Oct6Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Chongoyape, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around December 3 to June 20. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 21 to December 2, and September is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 66% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 24 · 68%Jan 23 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan0054423
Feb0024706
Mar0015759
Apr0042535
May0470250
Jun0227180
Jul0475120
Aug0613620
Sep0663320
Oct1613710
Nov0445330
Dec01176121

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Chongoyape is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around May 18 to Dec 30. The windiest month is September, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 31 to May 17, with March the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 21 · 8 km/hMar 14 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Chongoyape

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Chongoyape throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late November, Chongoyape is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Chongoyape for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to late November, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 22 · 9.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.0fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr5.1fair
May7.3good
Jun8.4ideal
Jul8.9ideal
Aug8.9ideal
Sep8.4ideal
Oct7.7ideal
Nov7.3good
Dec6.6good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Chongoyape for hot-weather activities is from late April to late January, with a peak score in the second week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 13 · 7.8

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Chongoyape, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Chongoyape packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Chongoyape sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Chongoyape

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 60 km away) is warmest in February at about 22°C and coldest in October near 17°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jan 11 to Apr 13 — about 3.1 months when the water holds above 20°C.

16°18°20°22°24°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan20Refreshing
Feb22Refreshing
Mar22Refreshing
Apr20Cool
May19Cool
Jun18Cool
Jul18Cool
Aug17Cool
Sep17Cool
Oct17Cool
Nov18Cool
Dec19Cool

UV index (midday) in Chongoyape by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Chongoyape peaks around February 14 at about 17 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 11 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 14UV 17Jun 21UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb17Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct15Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Chongoyape

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan8.57
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct8.56.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Chongoyape by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Chongoyape is worst in May — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1519 µg/m³Sep 1014 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Chongoyape is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Chongoyape banks about 4,542 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan451
Feb426
Mar470
Apr421
May395
Jun341
Jul322
Aug312
Sep309
Oct337
Nov352
Dec406

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Chongoyape receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.9 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 176.3 kWhJun 254.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.1Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Chongoyape?

Chongoyape sits at 6.6°S, 79.4°W, 214 m above sea level, in Peru. The nearest listed city is Pátapo, 29 km away.

Topography around Chongoyape

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Chongoyape.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chongoyape has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 400 m around an average of 236 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,418 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,062 m.

The land around Chongoyape is covered by cropland (53%) and shrubs (21%) within 3 km, shrubs (59%) within 16 km, and grassland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
400 m
16 km
1,418 m
80 km
4,062 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Pátapo 29 km · Saña 38 km · Picsi 43 km · Ferreñafe 44 km · Chiclayo 53 km · Lambayeque 57 km · Monsefú 59 km · Pimentel 64 km

Peru travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / B / C
220 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 51% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$9,684
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
49%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
8.6
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
13.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 519
Religion
Catholic 76%Evangelical Christian 16%no religion 5%other religions 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Chongoyape (-6.6406°, -79.3892°, elevation 214 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).